Friday, January 13, 2017

Hmmm

Andrew rattles off information about the music playing in the pizza to
his girlfriend, Nicole (Melissa Benoist). Sebastian, of course, plays
for Mia and teaches her to appreciate jazz. Music, then, effectively
serves as both an emotional conduit and a subtle affirmation of power:
where Fletcher uses his status as Andrew’s teacher as a cudgel to assert
his dominance, Guy and Sebastian — and, indeed, Andrew — maintain their
status as the more worldly, dominant partner in a subtler way, through
the assertion of their artistic skill and cultural knowledge. With the
exception of Mia, the women on the receiving end of this treatment are
directionless and therefore ideal counterparts: Madeline’s field in
graduate school is never specified, Nicole doesn’t even know her major,
and all we know about Elena is that she is so incompetent that she has
to have a man show her how to boil water. (That is the stuff of fantasy.)

Full article here. Warning: spoilers for all the films in the article.

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